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Loyalty's expiration date, discovered only after you've already eaten the sandwich.
means The state of breaking faith or loyalty owed to someone — especially by betraying a promise, trust, or marital bond.
from Built straightforwardly from 'faithful' (from Latin 'fides,' meaning faith or trust) plus the negating prefix 'un-' and the noun suffix '-ness.' 'Fides' is also the root of 'fidelity,' 'confide,' and 'fiancé' — a whole family of words about trust, with this one marking the branch where it snapped.
- not about sex
- emotional versions often hurt partners more
- brain chemistry
- novelty triggers dopamine similar to new love
- detection bias
- people spot others' cheating easier than their own
- trust repair
- takes roughly twice as long to rebuild as it took to break